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Show SMASHED CHILD'S SKULL AGAINST A HOT STOVE Brooklyn Man Fatally Injures Daughter and Makes Threats .Against Wife. NEW YORK, April 14. In consequence conse-quence of threats made by her husband hus-band that If she were not at home when he returned he would kill her and their three-year-old daughter, Mrs. Charles Joeger of Brooklyn sought refuge In the house of her sister. When Joeger reached home last night he found the rooms deserted. Infuriated, he ran from the house and hunted In different places for his wife. Everybody denied having seen her. but he waited and watched at his sister-in-law's door until un-til he heard the voice of his child at play with other children. Bursting in the door he knocked his wife against the wall and grabbed- hie daughter by the . legs as she flew to her mother's 1 arms. Mrs. Joeger fell upon her knees and begged him not to injure the child. Shouting curses at his wife, and still holding the child by the legs, he swung the little body around his head and brought her head down with crushing force upon the stove. He dropped the child then . and shouted at his wife. "It Is your turn next." Then he ran away, and going to a friend handed him 35 and told him to hurry and get a doctor, as his little girl had been hurt. A doctor was called In, said the child's skull had been crushed in many places and she could not live. Joeger was caught shortly before midnight hiding in the home of his brother. He said he did not know anything any-thing about the injury to his child. |